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UWI Alumna selected for prestigious FIFA Master Programme

For Release Upon Receipt - May 7, 2013

St. Augustine


ST. AUGUSTINE, Trinidad and Tobago – Many sport professionals worldwide dream of the opportunity to take a unique journey through three different European countries to study sport: building a vast network of contacts, including top executives from high-level international sports federations, clubs, agencies and organising committees. For Charisse Bacchus, national track and field athlete and graduate of the Postgraduate Diploma in Sports Management, this is her reality.

Bacchus, a Sport Service Officer (SSO) at the Sport Company of Trinidad and Tobago (SPORTT), has been selected as one of the 30 best all-round applicants from a pool of hundreds of applicants from around the world, to pursue the FIFA Master - the International Master in Management, Law and Humanities of Sport programme. The FIFA Master is currently ranked the #1 Sport Management Masters in Europe and the #2 globally by the Sport Business International Magazine. It is among the top graduate programmes, developing all-round managers who can cope with the increasingly complex world of sport. 

Making the transition from an athlete to a sport professional was important for Bacchus and her start through the Postgraduate Diploma in Sport Management at The UWI, offered in collaboration with the International Centre for Sports Studies (CIES) under the auspices of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), provided a great base. The programme offers courses in Strategic Management of Sports, Sports Marketing and Sponsorship, Law and Sports, Communication in Sports, Sports Finance, Sports Facilities Management, Event Management and Human Resource Management (HRM) in Sports.

Bacchus said, “As an athlete you now understand the other side of sport - what people are doing behind the scenes - and you gain a much greater appreciation for your managers, your liaisons, the people who are there working behind the scenes to ensure your paperwork is in order.”  She noted that there is also a big gap in the administration of sport in the Caribbean which would allow consistent development of good development programmes. 

According to Charisse Broome, Local CIES Coordinator and Coordinator of The UWI/ FIFA/CIES Postgraduate Diploma Programme, “Trinbagonians make up the highest percentage of the FIFA Master studentship and we are incredibly proud of Ms. Bacchus and pleased that a graduate of the Post Graduate Sports Programme here joins them.”

Department of Management Studies Head, Professor Surendra Arjoon, commented with pleasure on Bacchus’ accomplishment: “We can boast that graduates of The UWI/FIFA/CIES Programme are able to make their mark in both local and international sport. Her achievement bears testament that our graduates are adequately prepared to compete on an international level and we wish to extend our congratulations and wishes for good success at the FIFA Master Programme.”

Organised by the International Centre for Sport Studies (CIES) in partnership with three universities - De Montfort University in Leicester (England), SDA Bocconi School of Management in Milan (Italy), and the University of Neuchâtel (Switzerland) - and endorsed by FIFA, the FIFA Master in Management, Law and Humanities of Sport was created to promote management education within the sports world. It offers a dynamic international environment with around 20 different nationalities represented in a class of approximately 30 postgraduates that are selected each year. The international multi-disciplinary approach provides postgraduates with the opportunity to learn a broad range of subjects and develop their analytical skills to better cope with the fast-changing trends in the sport industry. 

Online applications for the 4th intake of The UWI/FIFA/CIES Diploma in Sports Management beginning this September have reopened, and  further information may be obtained by contacting Charisse Broome, Programme Coordinator/ Local CIES Co-ordinator of the UWI/FIFA/CIES Postgraduate Diploma at 662-2002 exts. 83724 or 82105, or via email at Charisse.Broome@sta.uwi.edu.

 

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